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Maria Miller calls time – more time – in the press's last chance saloonhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/08/maria-miller-press-regulation-sketch
Culture secretary's procrastination over press regulation stirs the Commons into questioning her multi-tasking skills<p>The last chance saloon in which the press has been drinking for the last two decades appears to have closed for renovation, and will open sooner or later as a gastropub with scrubbed pine tables, guest ales, and dishes such as tandoori pollock in a raspberry and passion fruit coulis with pecan crisps.</p><p>But the opening has been delayed again, as the culture secretary, Maria Miller, told the House on Tuesday. The privy council will take another look at things in a few weeks. &quot;I hope,&quot; she said, &quot;that the ceiling is in place then.&quot; I hadn't realised that even the pub's wretched ceiling is not up yet! (Hang on; a colleague tells me that she meant the &quot;sealing&quot;, which apparently is what you do to a royal charter. Sorry.)</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/08/maria-miller-press-regulation-sketch">Continue reading...</a>Press regulationNewspapers & magazinesMediaLeveson reportLeveson inquiryMaria MillerPoliticsPrivacy & the mediaFreedom of speechWorld newsTue, 08 Oct 2013 18:16:38 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/08/maria-miller-press-regulation-sketchPa/PA'It may all take some time,' Maria Miller told the House of Commons. Photograph: PaPa/PA'It may all take some time,' Maria Miller told the House of Commons. Photograph: PaSimon Hoggart2013-10-08T18:16:38ZJeremy Clarkson, and a whole lotta shakin' going onhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/feb/06/jeremy-clarkson-injunction-alex-hall
TV presenter's ex-wife Alex Hall has the privacy committee laughing – but not because of her bonkbusting antics<p>Jeremy Clarkson's ex-wife gave evidence to the committee on privacy. It was a surreal occasion. Alex Hall, as she is called, was wearing a smart charcoal suit and a soft white blouse. She is probably as different from her former husband as it is possible for another human life-form to be. Shy, nervous and softly spoken, she looked as if she would rather be behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius or even a Reliant Robin than the kind of gas-guzzling, 190mph, V8, titanium-clad behemoth he might favour.</p><p>Her troubles began when she decided to write about what it was like being married to a famous man – &quot;a sort of witty self-help book.&quot;</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/feb/06/jeremy-clarkson-injunction-alex-hall">Continue reading...</a>Jeremy ClarksonMediaPrivacy & the mediaPrivacyPoliticsUK newsLawInjunctionsMon, 06 Feb 2012 19:14:46 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/feb/06/jeremy-clarkson-injunction-alex-hallSav/FilmMagicJeremy Clarkson's 'popularity' raised a laugh in the Commons committee rooms Photograph: Sav/FilmMagicSav/FilmMagicJeremy Clarkson's 'popularity' raised a laugh in the Commons committee rooms Photograph: Sav/FilmMagicSimon Hoggart2012-02-06T19:14:46ZNew voices of social media – same old corporate speakhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jan/30/simon-hoggart-social-media-corporate
Jargon ruled the day as the committee of MPs investigating privacy spoke to a famous PR man and a Google executive<p>Four people from the new, state of the art, social media faced MPs and peers on Monday. They were three middle-aged men in suits plus one slightly younger woman in a suit. Hip and happening they were not. Instead they had learned all the jargon and corporate-speak you'd expect from a banker or a car-maker.</p><p>The committee was investigating privacy, and it soon became clear that this was of scant importance to the social media. The parliamentarians kept asking if their boards ever discussed ethical issues. If they do, they certainly don't make a song and dance about it.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jan/30/simon-hoggart-social-media-corporate">Continue reading...</a>Privacy & the mediaMediaPrivacyMedia lawMax MosleyMax CliffordGoogleTechnologyNews of the WorldNewspapers & magazinesNational newspapersNewspapersPress freedomPress intrusionHouse of CommonsUK newsMon, 30 Jan 2012 21:45:42 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jan/30/simon-hoggart-social-media-corporateDavid Levene/David LeveneMax Clifford criticised the Press Complaints Commission before the committee of MPs investigating privacy. Photograph: David LeveneDavid Levene/David LeveneMax Clifford criticised the Press Complaints Commission before the committee of MPs investigating privacy. Photograph: David LeveneSimon Hoggart2012-01-30T21:45:42ZSimon Hoggart's sketch: and the Big Bad Wolf is ...http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jul/15/news-world-hacking-guardian-uncovers
<p>Of course I'm biased, but it wasn't half fun. And dramatic. Innumerable Guardian people – editors, executives, writers, lawyers – turned up at committee room 8 in the Commons to watch our reporter Nick Davies give evidence to the culture, media and sport committee about the News of the World phone-hacking allegations.</p><p>After a chap from the Press Complaints Commission gave the impression there was not much he knew and not a lot more he could do, Davies took the witness table. At his side was Alan Rusbridger, the editor, who gave an account of why the story mattered and what the implications were for press regulation – which means press freedom. For many MPs would just love statutory regulation, and every time voluntary regulation fails it creeps a little closer.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jul/15/news-world-hacking-guardian-uncovers">Continue reading...</a>News of the WorldNews UKNational newspapersNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesPrivacy & the mediaMediaUK newsPoliticsThe GuardianAlan RusbridgerPrivacyTue, 14 Jul 2009 23:05:22 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jul/15/news-world-hacking-guardian-uncoversSimon Hoggart2009-07-14T23:05:22Z